Forthcoming issue (July 2025). Men, masculinities and gender equality: interdisciplinary research
Posted on 2024-03-10Men, masculinities, and gender equality: interdisciplinary research
Editors: Anastasia Téllez Infantes (UMH) and Marcos Jesús Iglesias Martínez (UA)
Submission period: until September 1st, 2024
Issue Release: July 2025
Languages: Spanish, English and Catalan
Instructions and template for authors:
https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/asparkia/about/submissions
More information about the issue: attellez@umh.es; marcos.iglesias@ua.es
Director: Núria Molines Galarza (nmolines@uji.es)
Reviews: To participate in the monograph, authors can also send reviews of books published in the years 2023 and 2024 related to the interests of the magazine.
Asparkia. Feminist Research is a biannual magazine that is published during January and July. It is a publication based on blind peer review. Asparkía aims to attract articles of top scientific quality from national and international researchers in the field of gender studies and feminist theory in a broad sense. The journal is indexed in: SCOPUS, FECYT Quality Seal and Good Editorial Practices in Gender Equality, CARHUS Plus+ 2014, ERIHPlus, MIAR, ISOC database, Latindex, Dialnet, Dulcinea, REDIB, DICE, RESH, IN-RECS, CIRC and Ulrichsweb.
Topic
Equality between women and men and the objectives of feminism require the involvement of men in the fight for gender equality.
On the one hand, more and more men are being challenged by feminist proposals and demands, and are pursuing a deconstruction of the traditional, sexist, and patriarchal masculinity in which children and young people are still being educated in societies such as ours. There is indeed a hopeful change, because in recent years, especially in Spain, we are witnessing a boom in social, media, and political interest, coinciding with the so-called “fourth feminist wave.” Although there are more and more boys, and men, who join the demonstrations on November 25 against gender violence and on March 8 for International Women's Day, and there are more and more men in the classrooms of courses and workshops on Masculinities, gender and equality, more men in politics, in companies, in academia, in the media, who are involved in the feminist struggle, with the pursuit of equality between women and men, are still few , are still a very minority group.
But, on the other hand, along with the advances in recent years of women's achievements, we see in turn, masculinist and anti-feminist reactions that proliferate alarmingly in hate speeches and positioning of radical political ideologies against equality and that we can summarize as "patriarchal backlash", being digital telecommunications a meeting space for the development of this misogynist culture and hatred towards women (Kantola and Lombardo 2019; 2021; Bernárdez-Rodal, Rey and Franco 2022; Cabezas and Vega Solís 2022; Cabezas, Pichel-Vázquez and Enguix 2023; Linders, Dudink and Spierings 2023; Sanfélix and Téllez, 2023).
With this monograph in Asparkía we intend to compile research results, which, from a gender perspective and various disciplines, analyze the reality of the men who make up contemporary societies, incorporating a critical approach of masculinities in the study and intervention with men.
From the university it is essential to analyze and reflect on men and masculinities and their relationship and involvement in achieving gender equality, an issue that is still pending and requires the collaboration of the entire university community (Lozano and Iglesias, 2017a; 2017b). It is therefore necessary to continue with the dissemination of the knowledge generated by the academy so that it does not remain in its circuits, but is used by society as a whole. Train and raise awareness among men about gender equality and feminism so that they know other possible ways of exercising their masculinity(s) (multiple and diverse) in a non-sexist, non-androcentric, non-patriarchal way, inviting them to deconstruct themselves, to look in the mirror from a gender perspective (Alonso, Aranguren and Téllez, 2022:18).
There are many voices raised from feminism and academia demanding scientific research that focuses on men and masculinities. Empirical field research work is needed where quantitative and qualitative data are obtained since the data helps us design and improve public policies, because these must be supported by objective data of the reality that we want to change to achieve a more egalitarian, feminist, democratic, fair and inclusive society (Alonso, 2021).
In turn, knowledge of the cultural construction of masculinity from a gender perspective and with an intersectional approach will allow women to better understand the logic of patriarchy and male socialization in a sexist society, to give them tools with which to dismantle the hegemonic ideological representations of gender, sexist behaviors and "micro-machismos" that perpetuate inequality between women and men (Téllez, 2021).
Six years after the monographic issue in Asparkia devoted to masculinities, we aim to go back to this issue and offer new insights into masculinities studies with an interdisciplinary approach.
References
Monographic Issue, Asparkía 35 (2019): Being a man in times of uncertainty: rethinking male identity.
Alonso Fernández de Avilés, Bakea (2021) Análisis de la incorporación de los hombres y las masculinidades en los planes estratégicos de igualdad en España, Rev. Ex aequo, ISSN-e 2184-0385, ISSN 0874-5560, Nº. 43, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Diálogos Feministas sobre Masculinidades: Experiências, Desafios e Horizonte), págs. 49-68 Revista EX AEQUO DOI: https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2021.43.04
Alonso, Bakea; Aranguren, Edurne y Téllez, Anastasia (2022) La formación sobre igualdad, hombres y masculinidades en la universidad: un giro epistemológico, pps. 15-30, en Isabel Tajahuerce y Bakea Alonso (Coords.) (2022) Hombres, masculinidad(es) e igualdad. Editorial: Editorial Aranzadi, S.A.U. 2022 [Thomson Reuters [egal) Limited I.S.B.N: 978-84-1390-778-9
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Editors
Anastasia Téllez Infantes. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9235-6044
PhD in Social Anthropology and Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Human Sciences of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante. Spain). Director of the ECULGE Research Group (Economy, Culture and Gender), director of the Masculinities Observatory (UMH), Deputy Director of the Master of Gender Equality in the Public and Private Sector of the UJI-UMH (15th ed), Founder and director (2002-2012) of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Gender Studies (SIEG), member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (CIEG), has been a member of the Monitoring Commission of the Equality Plan of the UMH, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Studies and Research on Women, Feminists and Gender (RD 1393/07) from 2009 to 2017. President of the “I International Congress on Masculinities and Equality: in search of good practices of egalitarian masculinities from the university level – CIMASCIGUAL” (Elche. April 4-6, 2019) and president of the “II International Congress on Masculinities and Equality: Education for equality and co(education)” (Elche, October 22-24, 2022) of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche. For more than three decades she has been researching the sociocultural construction of male and female identities with a gender perspective.
Marcos Jesús Iglesias Martínez. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5206-2762
PhD in Educational Research, Curriculum, and Professional Development from the University of Alicante, with an extraordinary award. He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Didactics and School Organization. Director of the Qualitative Research Group in Education, Teaching and Learning (GICEDA). He is the Degree Coordinator of the Practicum subject in the Degree of Teacher in Early Childhood Education and coordinator of the Teacher Training and Learning line of the Doctorate in Educational Research program. He teaches in the Bachelor's and Master's degrees of the Faculty of Education of the University of Alicante. In several editions he has obtained the award for teaching excellence in the DOCENTIA-UA program. Currently, she is a research member of the University Research Institute of Gender Studies of the University of Alicante and for which she is responsible for the Interuniversity Program of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Her lines of research are aimed at teacher professional development, designs of educational processes, education and gender, co-education, academic mobility and qualitative research in education. He has published in different national and international journals in the field of Educational Sciences and regularly participates as a reviewer. He has directed several doctoral theses on teacher training with a qualitative approach. Likewise, he has been a collaborator and main researcher in research and teaching innovation projects.